Tost gives “competitive” AlphaTauri 5/10 for first half of F1 2021

Red Bull’s sister team has impressed in F1’s 2021 season with a fast car, which allowed Pierre Gasly to qualify on the front three rows eight times out of 11 races and grab a podium in Baku.
Rookie Yuki Tsunoda also showed flashes of promise but has generally struggled to match his more experienced teammate and made his fair share of rookie errors.
But in the fight for fifth in the …Keep reading

The numbers that are the true judge of Ferrari’s 2021 F1 progress

For despite the huge encouragement that Ferrari has taken from the way it has recovered from a dire 2020 campaign, where it finished a lowly sixth in the standings, ending up third is still not its ultimate target.
Time and again this season, Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has been clear on that point: saying that it is ‘progression’ that matters far more than the final result in the …Keep reading

Renault’s F1 engine chief Taffin departs company

The Frenchman has been part of Renault’s F1 programme since 1999, and early in his career worked as an engine engineer for a host of drivers including Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button.
In 2009, Taffin stepped up to take overall control of Renault’s F1 activities and then from 2014, at the start of the current turbo hybrid era, he became director of operations.
From 2016, as Renault …Keep reading

Ferrari to unleash ‘significant’ F1 engine upgrade

Although there are homologation limits in place for engine manufacturers, which restrict them to just one update from last year, it has emerged that Ferrari has so far not unleashed all the changes it wanted to make with its 2021 power unit.
While other car makers introduced all their new components at the start of the year and must now stick to that same spec, Ferrari has instead been running …Keep reading